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"Roller Chain" Rosary
Robert Rottinghaus just turned 91 years old and he lives in a nursing home in Cedar Falls, Iowa. But that hasn’t stopped the veteran FARM SHOW inventor from continuing to innovate. He says his Roller Chain Rosary is a great idea for older farmers.
  “It’s designed like a regular rosary but uses chain links instead of beads,” says Rottinghaus. “I like it because it’s heavier and doesn’t ball up together like other rosaries do. I got the idea one morning when I was praying. The idea just came to me so I bought enough chain to make two of them.”
  He used No. 25 stainless steel roller chain. It consists of five 10-link sections of chain held together by aluminum rivets. Rottinghaus and his son used a small punch to disassemble the roller chain into sections, then riveted them back together. A crucifix off another rosary is hooked onto a short length of chain, which is attached to a small rectangular aluminum center piece.
  “I like that I can roll it up into a circle that lays flat on the table. Best of all it reminds me of all the farm equipment I worked on over the years,” says Rottinghaus, who farmed and ran a manufacturing company called Clever-Tech, Inc.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Robert Rottinghaus, Western Nursing Home, 5500 S. Main St., Apt. 24, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613 (ph 319 404-5663).


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2014 - Volume #38, Issue #4